Justice Quotes - Page 31

God made me an Indian, but not a reservation Indian.

My God, what do we want? What does any human being want? Take away an accident of pigmentation of a thin layer of our outer skin and there is no difference between me and anyone else. All we want is for that trivial difference to make no difference.

It's time to realize that one cannot combat one injustice by invoking and using another injustice

I believe in the 12 Jewels and try to provide my childrem with them. That is Knowledge, Wisdom, Understanding, Freedom, Justice, Equality, Food, Clothing, Shelter, Love, Peace and Happiness.

If abuses are destroyed, man must destroy them. If slaves are freed, man must free them. If new truths are discovered, man must discover them. If the naked are clothed; if the hungry are fed; if justice is done; if labor is rewarded; if superstition is driven from the mind; if the defenseless are protected, and if the right finally triumphs, all must be the work of man. The grand victories of the future must be won by man, and by man alone.

Justice is a faculty that may be developed. This development is what constitutes the education of the human race.

My hope for America and the activists is that they never, ever go back to sleep, and they keep fighting for social justice, equality, and decency.

The penalty of death is the only one that makes an injustice absolutely irreparable; from which it follows that the existence of the death penalty implies that one is exposed to committing an irreparable injustice; from which it follows that it is unjust to establish it. This reasoning appears to us to have the force of a demonstration.

I must be willing to give whatever it takes to do good to others. This requires that I be willing to give until it hurts. Otherwise, there is no true love in me, and I bring injustice, not peace, to those around me.

Mass incarceration is the most pressing racial justice issue of our time.

It is not possible to be in favor of justice for some people and not be in favor of justice for all people.

If laws are unjust, they must be continually broken until they are altered.

Decide justice is worthy and refuse to go away.

We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice.

If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.

Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.

To take a life when a life has been lost is revenge, not justice.

Any pain entailed in repentance will always be far less than the suffering required to satisfy justice for unresolved transgression.

The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.

Romanticism is not just a mode; it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just waiting for the right man.

Unfortunately justice is the train that's nearly always late.

We current Justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as Twentieth Century Americans. We look to the history of the time of framing and to the intervening history of interpretation. But the ultimate question must be, what do the words of the text mean in our time. For the genius of the Constitution rests not in any static meaning it might have had in a world that is dead and gone, but in the adaptability of its great principles to cope with current problems and current needs.

Everyone speaks of himself with regard to his ownself, "I am above and the others are below," whilst all of them are around the globe like the blossom springing on the branches of the Kadamba tree.

The time has come to move beyond eco-elitism to eco-populism. Ecopopulism. To change our laws and culture, the green movement justice, political solutions and social change.

Unfortunately, the American justice system is just riddled with lies and inconsistencies.